Author: Stuart Mackinnon

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 24, 2014   Both sides need to reboot with new ideas for agreements  After dozens of meetings and thousands of hours invested, and still no agreement in sight, everyone needs to cool off and take a time-out in negotiations between the City of Vancouver’s Board of Parks

Stuart  Mackinnon is active in parks and green space issues, with a focus on access, preservation and conservation. He has sat on the boards of many non-profit organizations including Axis Theatre, the Wilderness Committee, Follow Dr. Norman Bethune to China, and SPEC (the Society Promoting Environmental Conservation). From 2008-2011 Mackinnon

On Thursday, January 31, 1957, the Parliament of Canada proclaimed: A Day of General Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed – to be observed on the 2nd Monday in October.

by Stuart Mackinnon on Oct 6, 2014 at 2:28 pm Straight.com Stuart Mackinnon is a Green candidate for the Vancouver park board.  Vancouver parks and recreation facilities have been neglected and need to be made a priority again. Fields, gardens, natural spaces, and community centres are deteriorating and yet little

 Michael Wiebe is my running mate as a Green Party of Vancouver Park Baord candidate. Here is some information so you can get to know him better.  Bio: Michael Wiebe grew up skating on Jericho pond, swimming at English Bay, and cycling Stanley Park. He’s now a local business owner and

Vancouver parks and recreation facilities have been neglected and need to be made a priority again. People and community groups have been marginalized. It’s time for change. That includes putting community centres back where they belong — at the centre of our neighbourhoods — by giving them the independence to

At a special general meeting this morning, Green Party of Vancouver members voted to officially endorse as candidates for Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation and Vancouver School Board the nominees approved by the party’s Candidate Screening Committee in August. Stuart Mackinnon and Michael Wiebe are the Green candidates for Park Board;  Mischa Oak and Janet

Enjoy a fantastic meal and help me launch my campaign for Park Board! Dine at Graze Restaurant on September 9th, and Graze will donate 20% of all dinner sales to my campaign! All you have to do is make a reservation referencing Stuart’s campaign and enjoy a fabulous meal! To

The City of Vancouver has entered its second phase of consultation on the 2015-2018 Capital Plan. Here is a blog posting I wrote earlier this year. The link at the end is for the new city website. In the 9 May 2014 edition of the Vancouver Sun in a section

 Andrew Fleming / Vancouver Courier August 12, 2014 01:46 PM   Stuart Mackinnon. Photo Dan Toulgoet Former Green Party park board commissioner Stuart Mackinnon wants to get his old job back. Mackinnon, who lost his seat in 2011 after serving one term, is one of only three Green Party candidates ever

Posted by Green Party of Vancouver on August 07, 2014 · With 100 days to go to the civic election, Green Party of Vancouver Chair Jacquie Miller is pleased to announce the Party’s four nominees for Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation and Vancouver School Board: Stuart Mackinnon and Michael Wiebe for Park Board;

 From the Straight Editor’s note: Four former Vancouver park board commissioners have signed this letter addressed to the current park board, which on Thursday (July 31) voted to prohibit the breeding of whales and dolphins at the Vancouver Aquarium. July 31, 2014. Commissioners: As former Park Board Commissioners, we would like

This coming Sunday will mark the 36th annual Pride Parade in Vancouver (August 3 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm). Vancouver Pride describes the event as “attracting crowds of more than 650,000, the Pride Parade is renowned on the international stage as one of the largest and most successful LGBTQ

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Being an election year, this summer is a lot more political than usual. In non-election years the local press often has difficulty finding stories of interest on the civic scene. Not this year. Not a day goes by that there isn’t some sort of story to shake things up. What

Amid calls that whales and dolphins in captivity are “cruel” – the Vancouver Aquarium showcases research aimed at improving belugas’ lives in a warming Arctic Mychaylo Prystupa  Posted: Jun 26th, 2014  (c) Vancouver Observer In a PR push apparently aimed at winning Vancouverites’ hearts and minds over a controversial beluga

The Province June 22, 2014. • Section: Opinion Imagine a better city. Imagine a civic government that engaged citizens as partners rather than adversaries. Imagine a city where the civil service is empowered to speak out and speak with taxpayers. Imagine a city where civil discourse and debate is respectful

Last night the Southeast Vancouver Seniors Arts and Cultural Society held its AGM at Killarney Community Centre. The SVSACS is the community organization pressing for a Seniors Centre attached to the Killarney Community Centre. With contributions from all 3 levels of government totalling close to 10 million dollars, the centre

Salmon streams or bus parkade? Stanley Tromp / Vancouver Courier June 20, 2014 11:07 AM  Terry Slack would like to see a vacant industrial lot turned into a new park. photo Dan Toulgoet  Terry Slack has a vision. The veteran fisherman wants the city to establish a 10-acre park with